Filters for query results

[Avijeet_Prasad]

Currently (v0.8.8), the results of queries as displayed as a single list of entries and there is no way to filter them to selected desired pages. This problem becomes quite critical if the number of pages returned from the query result is large.

An implementation of filters similar to what is available for linked references would be very useful in my view.

[selah]

Another use case: One could write a general query for, say, tasks, and then dynamically filter the results by some property, say, “project”.

[alex0]

@selah

Another use case: One could write a general query for, say, tasks, and then dynamically filter the results by some property, say, “project”.

For this use case, you may be interested in this:

The contextual sidebar: query current page and organize pages in indexes

This method may help you if: You use Linked References to “query” the current page but you would like more powerful filters. You want to organize pages hierarchically and you found that namespaces are not meant for that. Specifically you want a page to be in multiple hierarchies. The idea is to place some useful queries in a page in the right sidebar. These queries will use the variable <%current page%> to refer to the page you have actually open in the main view. For example here there’s…